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IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

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Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

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Post by sp332 »

7952 wrote: post #54
cobrausn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.

Depends how you define upload. Why couldn't a computer just simulate a persons outputs based on recordings of their life. Does virtualization of life really need to have consistent consciousness? Maybe rip would be a better word than upload.

That wouldn't work because it would include things a person did at various times during their life. It also would be hard to make sure that it reacts or changes in response to new stimuli in the same way that person would.

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Post by egypturnash »

jeremyarussell wrote: post #7

I like how someone commented on the main article that the time is getting close to where AI can step up to the plate of creativeness and how widespread and easy this will make our lives. Watson is a giant server farm, not a single PC, this stuff won't make a huge impact until IBM can shrink it or until computers get much much faster and smaller. Not that it won't happen, it's just not "around the corner" in any way.

OOon the other hand you probably have more computing power in your purse or pocket than entire server farms had in the 80s. It's all relative.

The big question is just when is Moore's Law going to quit applying.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dasil003 wrote: post #55
benohear wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The worst thing is that translated into normal speak that's actually a reasonable sounding proposition: "We use our experience in this field to provide practical advice to our clients which helps them improve their way of doing business and ROFL-stomp their competition 10x over."

Is roflstomp just an everyday verb now?

Apparently so: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roflstomp

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Post by IvyMike »

canttestthis wrote: post #53
sp332 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.

Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.

For me it's the smug "See, I told you cell phones would be important in the future" gloating over obvious predictions, and the "well I said we would all be using driverless cars but since there is one, that still validates my entire prediction" hedging.

Also his whole "I'm going to eat magic vitamins that will keep me alive forever" thing.

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Post by cschmidt »

canttestthis wrote: post #53
sp332 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.

Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.

There were lots of comments on this thread when he joined Google:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923914

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Post by marcosdumay »

lrei wrote: post #16

Very common issue with machine learning: you have to be careful what your examples are (training set) or the algorithm will learn things that you don't want it to learn or that _you_ know are incorrect but _it_ has no way to know that.

Sounds like a very common issue with human learning too.

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Post by mbesto »

edw519 wrote: post #24

Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time: "We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our clients to harness the power of best practices in order to shift their paradigms and achieve 10X deltas against competitive industry metrics."

You forgot a "Lower TCO" in there somewhere...
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